How to Impress Your Valentine

This Valentine's Day, bump breakfast in bed up a notch with this recipe for heart shaped eggs in a basket, heart shaped potatoes and bacon!

What you'll need:

• Bread
• Eggs
• Bacon
• Potatoes
• Oil to pan fry the potatoes
• Beano's Southwest Sauce
• Salt and Pepper to taste for the egg and potatoes

There's some prep work that will go into this V-day breakfast. For the heart shaped eggs in a basket, cut a heart shaped hole out of the center of a piece of your sweetheart's favorite bread. You can use a large cookie cutter, or if you're pretty good at eyeballing shapes, feel free to do it free hand with a knife. 

Then, cut out the heart shaped potatoes. I cut the potato into about 1/2 inch thick slices, then cut the potato slices into heart shapes. Here, again, feel free to use a cookie cutter or do it free hand.

I always cook my bacon first (in a pan on medium heat) if I'm making breakfast so that I can use the grease from the bacon to add flavor to the rest of the meal. Then, I put some foil over it and put it in the microwave (don't start the microwave with tin foil on your bacon!!) to keep it warm.

Since the potatoes will take a little bit longer than the eggs in a basket, put these on to fry either alongside the bacon, or right after. I used some of the bacon grease, along with some oil to fry the potatoes. Cook until browned.

For the heart shaped eggs in a basket, toast your piece of bread that we cut the heart shape out of (or you can cook it in a little bit of oil or butter), and put it either in the same pan you cooked the potatoes and bacon in, or grab a new one and lightly oil it. Crack open an egg and empty the contents into the heart shaped void in the bread. Try not to break the yolk!

Let the egg fry until it's done to your sweetheart's taste. Use a spatula to remove the delightful treat from the pan and put it onto a plate. Finish it off by tracing the heart around the egg with some Beano's Southwest Sauce! Yum!